I’ve always
found bureaucracy distasteful, as have most people. The machine exists, as one
of my political science professors put it, to ensure its own survival. What is
ostensibly there to serve the people, to manage what, on an individual level is
unmanageable, morphs into its own entity that will do whatever it takes to
perpetuate itself, even at the expense of its original purpose.
I’ve
struggled in dealing with bureaucracies, and never managed to find a path that
truly worked well. The courses they insist upon are largely unnavigable, and
littered with rocks and shoals that trip up even experienced navigators.
I think,
too, the longer a person works at a particular place, the more they see inside
the bureaucracy, and it’s never really pretty.